“Einhopl arrived in Kharkov yesterday evening. He will examine the ex-prime minister today and return to Germany,” he clarified.

Yulia Timoshenko is serving a sentence in a Khrakov prison for exceeding her powers when she signed gas contracts with Russia in 2009. She agreed to undergo treatment in a hospital belonging to the Ukrainian Railways in May on condition that a specialist of the Charite clinic would be her doctor. The next day Timoshenko was hospitalized after a 20-day hunger strike. She had gone on hunger strike in protest against the brutal treatment on the part of her bodyguards who transported her from prison to the clinic.